Steaming and drying apparatus



Feb. 14, 1928. 1,659,097

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Filed Sept. 28. 1926 v 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Pataite'd Feb. 14, 1928.

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" 1 Application filed September -28, 1836. Serial No. 138,818;

The present invention relates to devices for steaming, fumi ments; and has for ltSObjGCt the perfecting ofan adjustable mechanism on which the above operation may be carried out quickly and economically, and in a superior manner;

A further obj ect is to so construct the device that a garment placed thereon may be steamed and dried without removing it from the device and at the same time to so dry the garment that it will be free from wrinkles or creases, thereby doing away with the necessity of ironing.

Further objects are I so that it may be adapted to sleeved or sleeveless garments without undue loss of steam or hot air in operating thereupon, and toafl'ord adjustment of the device to suit it for different length garments.

In carrying out the above objects, I provide a foraminous formshaped in a general way like the garments to be treated thereupon; said form having collapsible telescoping sleeves and an adustable annular platform carrying an adjustable ring thereon. I also provide means for injecting into the interior of said form a jet of steam and a blast of hot air.

Referring tothe drawings: Figure 1 shows a form of the invention in elevation.

Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the sleeves;

in telescoped position."

Fig. 3 is a section on line:2-2 Fig. 1,'

showing in detail an adjustable ring for holding the lower-end of the garment tight against the adjustable platform.

Fig. 4 is a detail on an enlarged scale showing a means for adjusting the ring relative to the platform.

In the figures mentioned above, 10 represents a hollow form shaped in a general way like the bust and torso of a person, .which form is provided with a plurality of small suitably spaced apertures 11, the portion 12 being without apertures, thereby preventing escape of steam or air except through the garment. 4

In order to adapt the device to be used with sleeved or sleeveless garments, cylindrical arms 13 and 14 are,provided perfoting and drying gar-' to construct the device.

:WlSe of the form by a by adjusting bolts an bottom of the garment is held against being 'justment laterally on the V ,ring 21 is formed in sect1ons'21 'bv flexible members 22 telescopically slid- -by a cock 28.

rated throughout their length but having non-foraminous ends 15 adapted to cover and close the apertures 16 in the form surrounded by shoulders in the form of a cylindrical flange 16 through which the arms slide. The opposite inner ends of the arms are open. In order to'economize space and thereby afford as long arms as possible, one

of the arms 13 is made of lesser diameter than the other so that it may snugly slide thereinto when the arms are collapsed, as

shown in Fig. 2, and the'inner end of said arm 13 is beveled inward at 13 to facilitate its entering arm 14. I

The device is designed to be used for various lengthened garments and, in order that there may be no escape ofsteam or hot air in the treatment of a garment except through the fabric of, the garment, a bafile member in the form of an annular platform 17 is provided which may be adjusted lengthny suitable means as gnuts 18 and 19. The

blown upward on the form by the blast-of steam or hot air by any suitable means, as

by means of pins 20. projecting laterally from a ring'21 mounted for expansible adplatform 17 The connected able therein, the sections 21 being made hollow for that purpose. Slots 23 are formed in the platform 17, and lock nuts 24 are provided for clamping the sections in their ad usted positions. An apron 25, which is preferably offiexible material practically impervious to steam or hot an, is provided to prevent the escape of steam and air below the platform, and a drip pan 26 is located at the bottomof the form to collect products of condensation which may be cari'ied off through an outlet tube 27- controlled The apron 25 may beattached to the bottom side of the platform and to the form 10 below the perforations 11.

Communicating with one side of the form 10 is an air .passageway 29, in which may be located any-suitable means for forcing a blast of hot air into the form 10, as a fan 30; Concentrically located relative to said shown in the drawings as adapted forwomens dresses. The garment is placed on the form 10, and if the garment has sleeves,

the arms 13 and 14 are drawn out so that the ends 15 extend to the lower ends of the sleeves, the platform 17 is raised or lowered so as to just touch the bottom of the skirt, and the ring 21 is adjusted to the diameter of the lower end of the skirt and so that the pins 20 will extend through the fabric, holding the lower end of the skirt from being forced upward when the blast of steam or air is turned on.

When the garment is so placed, steam is first turned on by opening the cook 34, and allowed to play on the-garment as long as desirable for the purpose at hand, and then a blast of air, preferabl hot, is turned on with sufficient force to istend the garment to its complete fullness, whereupon the garment will be dried free from wrinkles or creases, and thereby eliminating the necessity of ironin the garment.

It is to be understood that the embodiment of the device in the form shown and described in the present application is merely illustrative and that it may assume various other forms suitable for the treatment of other forms of garments, that the means for adjustment of the various adjustable parts may assume other forms, and the use of other vapors or gases than air and steam may be injected into the form by the apparatus shown for various purposes other than those described.

Having described my invention, what I claim is: r Adevice for treating garments comprismg, a foraminous form, a baflie member surrounding the form and extending outwardly therefrom beyond a garment placed on said form, and adjustable vertically on the form' to be brought into contact with the bottom of garments of different lengths and means for forcing fluid through-the form.

2. device of the character described, comprising a forminous hollow form. having shoulder apertures, forminous hollow arms shdably mounted in said apertures so as to be adjustable as to length, an adjustable platform surrounding the form and means for injecting fluid into said form.

3. A device. of the character described, comprising a 'foraminous hollow form hav mg apertures therein, a cylindrical flange surroundin each aperture, foraminous hollow arms s 'dably mounted and snugly fitment placed on the form, an

. most a a hollow ment through said apertures and ting in said cylindrical fian e, and means for injecting fluid into said Ol'lll.

4. In a device of the a foralninous,hollow form,

an adjustable ring on the platform having.

means for holding the bottom of a garment against the platform, and'means for injecting a fluid into said form.

5. In a device of the character described, a foraminous hollow form, extensible hollow foraminous arms, an adjustable platform,

character described, form, an annularrplat- I an adjustable ring on the platform, and

means for injecting a fluid into the form.

6. A device of the character described, comprising a foraminous hollow form having telesoping hollow foraminous arms, provided with non-foraminous ends, platform adjustable longitudinally of the form, a laterally expansible ring on the paltform, means for injecting steam into the interior of the form, and means for forcing air under pressure through the apertures in the form.

In a device of the character described, a hollow foraminous form, hollow foraminous arms telescopically adjustable relative to said form.

- S. In a device of the character described, a hollow foraminous form having apertures therein, hollow foraminous arms slidably mounted in said apertures for adjustment as to length.

9. In a device of the character described, a foraminous form having apertures therein,

hollow foraminous arms one of which is open at its inner end 'slidably mounted so as to be adapted to'project through said apertures ,and to telescope one within the other when drawn into said form.

10. In a device of the character described, a hollow foraminous form, a platform adjustable vertically on said form to bring it into contact with the lower end of a garannular a mu secured to the platform and to said 1% the latter attachment being below the lowerrtures insaid form. 11. n a

foraminous form, an platform' encircli said form and adjustable vertically on iie fornrto. be brought into contact with a garment placed thereomsaid garment at all ference of said jecting a fluid'intosaid form. V

(12. In a device of the character described, a foraminous hollow form, an annular latform encircling thev form, a laterally ustable rin on said platform having means thereon or gripping the lower end of ment placed on theform.

13. In a device of the character described, a hollow foraminous form havin apertures therein, arms arranged for sli adjust apted to points in the'annular circuma gardevice ofthe character described, I

platform, and means for in;

telescope one within another-when drawn vioue apron attached to the platform and into the form, an annular platform snugly to the term below the lowermost apertures fitting about the form and vertically adjusttherein, means for injecting a molstening 10 able on the lower end of the form, a rin and means for injecting a drying-fluid into a 5 laterally adjustable on the latform an said form.

having means for gripping t e lower .end In testimony whereof I'aflix my si nature. of a garment placed on the form, an imper- CHARLES GI. 

